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Why so many different sites? As one of the local FFmpeg “top users”1 who sometimes visits other sites to look at FFmpeg questions, let me just say that I also find the fragmentation a little bit disa …

TL;DR: Do provide extra info when possible. But: Focus on providing self-contained data in your post; don't rely on external uploads entirely. There's a rule that is more strictly enforced on Stack …

It's been a few years since we synonymized macos to osx. At the time, we did this to distinguish incorrect uses of the tag from questions related to the old “Classic” Mac OS tagged under mac-os-classi …

I was having a discussion with @Gilles lately, whether to allow questions about OS X being virtualized. …

Yes, these should be closed as primarily opinion based, because they're subjective and there's no real problem to be solved. A couple of reasons: It's easy enough to take a look at what both tools …

First, the tl;dr: Starting today, I am no longer a community moderator on Super User. Over the past weeks, I've made the decision to step down as a moderator. I was elected on July 24, 2012, and it's …

The hack seems barely useful, more like a meta tag. It's used for hacking, but not strictly in the sense of security threats, but also "hacking" something together. Should we remove the "hack" tag f …

Here's a list of tags related to "recovery": recovery (493) data-recovery (464) password-recovery (63) hard-drive-recovery (56) file-recovery (37) system-recovery (10) partition-recovery (5, this wa …

There are spammers who post normal answers and include a spam link at the end, and those should not be edited out, but flagged as spam accordingly, with the users being destroyed. Try to figure out i …

Hardware shopping questions are discouraged for multiple reasons: they seek subjective recommendations they become outdated fast they are only useful to one person at the time of asking With a giv …

Since this is not dangerous in any way, but simply a wrong answer, please do not flag it. Down voting and leaving a comment is the way to go here.

It applies to both questions and answers. Note that you cannot delete a question when it has positively scored or accepted answers anyway. That kind of behavior is discouraged anyway—and if you tried …

Maybe let the moderator know that the flag was for a previous version of the answer. That'd be a nice feature. Currently, what we see is this: It doesn't show whether a post has been edited, a …

Whether you like it or not, many people like Crucial.com, and we have no problem whatsoever with users of our site recommending Crucial.com, as long as: the answers consist of more than just a link …

You couldn't have known. This was a fake question acting as a bait for spam answers. It looks like you were supposed to review the answer, which was deleted as spam by a moderator. These spammers a …